I’m often asked to summarize what I have learned in my 40+ years of activism in the field of housing and community development. Here is what I’m saying these days… 1. Community development. The quality […]

Forty-nine years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today Austin is proclaiming, in a manner that Dr. King would surely approve, that the imperative of racial integration of neighborhoods is still alive. Proposing to overcome […]

On Saturday, the latest in our country’s recent series of ugly police confrontations with African-Americans occurred in a seemingly unlikely place: A community pool in McKinney, Texas, a quiet Dallas suburb named 2014’s best place to live in […]

Yesterday I had the honor to deliver the keynote speech at the 102nd commencement ceremony for the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. I was inspired and deeply moved to sit on the stage […]

Yesterday our co-director, John Henneberger, appeared on Houston Public Media to discuss how rates of homeownership affect the racial wealth gap. “The segregation of people of color into neighborhoods where home equity does not accumulate […]